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alisdairjsmyth / node-red-contrib-lifx-api

A collection of Node-RED nodes to control LIFX globes using the HTTP Remote Control API
Apache License 2.0
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Cannot get nodes to show on palette #1

Closed NSEchris closed 7 years ago

NSEchris commented 7 years ago

I'm new at node, npm, node-red, etc. I tried installing node-red-contrib-lifx-api on these versions, and have not been successful getting the nodes to show up on the palette:

I tried the various versions because I read there were issues with certain versions of these packages, and hoped I'd get lucky and happen to find a combo that works.

The console shows a warning message when starting node-red of "[lifx-api] Error: Cannot find module 'lifx-http-api'"

This could be as simple as I don't know the proper procedure to install the nodejs dependency, but I don't know. I would really appreciate any help you could offer.

PS - I do have a different lifx node working, but it doesn't provide a way to use the effects.

alisdairjsmyth commented 7 years ago

I just did a clean install on a RPI and experienced the same issue. One thing that looked odd was the structure of ~/.node-red/node_modules - rather than being a tree of dependencies, it was flat. I will need to investigate further.

alisdairjsmyth commented 7 years ago

If I install this package using npm@2 (sudo npm install -g npm@2.x) I get the tree structure expected and the lifx nodes appear in the node-red palette. (macOS, node-red 0.15.1, Node.js 6.6.0, npm 2.15.11) I am away from RPI right now, so I can't confirm whether using npm@2 fixes what I observed earlier. I will try when I get a chance.

alisdairjsmyth commented 7 years ago

Issue appears to have been introduced in v1.0.2 of lifx-http-api. The package.json on github includes the following change:

-  "main": "source/lifx.js",
+  "main": "dist/lifx.js",

... however the image of the package.json included in npm install (1.0.2) is not reflective of this change and still points to source/lifx.js which does not exist. Have raised an issue on that project.

alisdairjsmyth commented 7 years ago

npm version 1.0.1 includes a temporary fix for this issue.

NSEchris commented 7 years ago

Thanks for jumping on this right away and working out the solution! I can confirm that installing 1.0.1 did resolve the node-red launch error, and the nodes are available on the palette. I didn't have time to test it's functionality, but I will do that tonight. Thanks again, I really appreciate that you created this node!

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